Shortly after *517 1:00 p.m., Sutherlin opened a Lazarus charge account in order to purchase a jogging suit for her husband. Sutherlin did not bring with her the sales receipts for the items she was returning, however, believing that they were unnecessary as she had previously returned items to Lazarus without them.ĭuring the course of her shopping, Sutherlin purchased two shirts for her son, a blouse for her daughter, and exchanged one of the previously purchased sweaters she had brought with her. At the time she entered the store, Sutherlin had in her possession a Lazarus shopping bag in which were contained three sweaters she had previously purchased from Lazarus which she desired to return. After making her appointment, Sutherlin returned to the first floor to shop for her children. Immediately upon arriving at the store, Sutherlin proceeded to the beauty salon located on the second floor to set up an appointment. Additionally, she intended to have her hair styled at the Lazarus Beauty Salon. Sutherlin visited Lazarus located in the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana to complete her Christmas shopping for her family. Schrumpf, McNeely, Sanders, Stephenson & Thopy, Shelbyville, for plaintiffs-appellees.ĭefendant-appellant, Lazarus Department Store (Lazarus), appeals a jury verdict rendered in favor of plaintiff-appellees, Patricia and Richard Sutherlin (Sutherlin), on their complaint for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and defamation. Tosick, Greenfield, for defendant-appellant. Dodd, Ice, Miller, Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, Michael J. Patricia SUTHERLIN and Richard Sutherlin, Plaintiffs-Appellees.Ĭourt of Appeals of Indiana, First District. Simon Lazarus’ grandson, Fred Lazarus Jr., is credited with convincing President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to change the Thanksgiving holiday to the fourth Thursday of November from the last Thursday to extend the holiday shopping season, arguing that it would be good for the country’s economy as it wallowed in the Great Depression.LAZARUS DEPARTMENT STORE, Defendant-Appellant, Bloomingdale’s joined Federated the following year, and in 1945 the company moved its headquarters to Cincinnati, where it continues to be based. In 1929, F&R Lazarus joined with several other family-owned department stores, including Abraham & Straus and Filene’s of Boston, to form a Columbus-based holding company named Federated Department Stores Inc. The downtown store, which opened in 1909, traces its lineage to 1851 when Simon Lazarus, the first rabbi of Columbus’ Temple Israel, opened a small men’s clothing store that would become F&R Lazarus & Co., a department store named for his two sons, Fred and Ralph. The shuttering of the store will result in a $12 million noncash charge in the third quarter, Federated said, but that will not affect the company’s current earnings guidance of 30 to 33 cents a share. The landmark, originally 933,000 square feet, was downsized to 317,500 square feet in 1998. Inside the VIP Tent at the 2023 Veuve Clicquot Polo Classicįederated said it will not look to open another store in downtown Columbus and that it will offer most of the approximately 200 employees who work at the soon-to-be-closed location positions at other area stores.
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